Drupal creator Dries Buytaert announced, "Exactly six months after the Drupal 4.1.0 release we are happy to announce the availability of Drupal 4.2.0."

According to the release announcement, highlights of this release include clean URLs, support for extending Drupal with WYSIWYG editors, context sensitive help, support for MSSQL, enhanced searching, and finer grained permissions. For complete details of recent changes, refer to the changelog.

KernelTrap has been upgraded to this latest release.